On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 05:02:21PM -0500, Will Coleda wrote:
> Is now a good time to ask if we still want to use the sprintf
> slang in perl 6?
Yes, see also https://github.com/perl6/specs/issues/13 .
Pm
Is now a good time to ask if we still want to use the sprintf slang in perl
6?
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
> On 1/8/2013 22:38, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>
>> I wonder what it would take to write a version of sprintf in Perl 6 or
>> NQP directly, ignoring all spee
On 1/8/2013 22:38, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
I wonder what it would take to write a version of sprintf in Perl 6 or
NQP directly, ignoring all speed aspects for the time being. Then we'd
at least have something portable, provably correct, easily modified,
and that could be used as a reference i
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 11:52:12AM -0800, Carl Mäsak via RT wrote:
> On Tue Jan 08 11:40:37 2013, FROGGS.de wrote:
> > This would mean to bring over 500 lines of C code to nqp/rakudo.
>
> Is that an absolute claim? What about wrappers?
Currently Rakudo uses Parrot's sprintf features. I wouldn't
On Tue Jan 08 11:40:37 2013, FROGGS.de wrote:
> This would mean to bring over 500 lines of C code to nqp/rakudo.
Is that an absolute claim? What about wrappers?
> And this would mean that it doesn't get faster. Is it worth it?
In my mind, correctness trumps speed. The current behavior seems
obv
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 12:14:22PM -0500, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 17:51:52 +0100 Carl Mäsak wrote:
>
> CM> Ted (>):
> >> Are state variables available now, or is the every(N) functionality
> >> possible in some other way now?
>
> CM> Why not try it by writing a small program? :
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 17:51:52 +0100 Carl Mäsak wrote:
CM> Ted (>):
>> Are state variables available now, or is the every(N) functionality
>> possible in some other way now?
CM> Why not try it by writing a small program? :)
CM> Rakudo is available at a discount right now -- download it before it'
